I've had it up to HERE with spyware!

[ScatterPlot]

I am getting spyware/adaware/torjan horses/you name it, I got it. And I keep getting it. I ran Spybot and Adaware both YESTERDAY and I got back a lot of stuff. I dunno if it's the same stuff, but I'm getting a deluge of it! I think it's somewhere on my comp, cause I don't really go any sites that would have this kind of thing (that's right, no pornos) but anyway...
How can I get rid of it? Is there some software that will BLOCK all this stuff and not just remove it? I have Norton Antivirus 04 that I just got a couple weeks ago, but that's not doing the trick. I can't figure out what's going on. Please help!!!

[MrWallen]

ZoneAlarm is the best prog for outright blocking of Spy/Ad ware, I've used it for months and I can still run both Spybot AND Adaware and not find ANYTHING. I also use Norton AntiVirus in conjuntion, so there ain't no way my comp is goin down.

Lol, I used to think virus's and spyware wouldn't cause me any probs, but they killed my last comp, so I'm not taking any risks this time!

[MattPaintballer]

I'm getting popups when I'm not online...

is spyware/adware the stuff like popups that appear out of nowhere (even when your not online?) if so, just recently I got a whole load of that stuff. I don't know why, the only sites I browse are paintball and flash game websites... maybe my brother went to something? I don't know but its annoying and I don't want it anymore!

[MagMan5446]

The Cleaner. Look it up on download.com, worked for me.

[The Deacon]

Flash game sites are the worst. That's all my brother ever visits, and I've had to reformat 3 computers that he's touched.

My advice: download AVG anti-virus and zonealarm firewall. They're both 100% free, and even after that devil known was my brother hit my laptop and desktop with those sites, I'm doing fine.

My rule of thumb is: if it gets a PG rating (porn or games), it's a likely source of adware.

[JimmyBeam]

people who put out spyware sould be shot. i got sick of it and got Track Zapper.....here

http://trackzapper.com/download.htm

they let you use it 4 or 5 times without registering. then its like 30 bucks for the download. it works great for me so far

[MantisMag]

if you buy adaware plus it has blocking and monitoring features.

[Theguad]

Ad-Aware Pro

Trust me. Ad-Aware from Lavasoft is the only way to go. You can get the scanner as a free download that you can run periodically but for a small charge you can get a memory resident scanner that will act like a spyware virus guard.

[Sparq]

I recently got a few spyware/adware/trojans/etc...it ook 3 different programs, but I think I finallyt managed to rip out all of them except this occasional popup, and something called 'dumbsearching' or something like that. The worst was a toolbar called Birdclock.

Try HijackThis...it got some of the stuff Ad -Aware missed.

[cphilip]

Best thing for spyware is Jaguar....

[PyRo]

Spybot and google popup blocker, I havn't had an involentary popup in months (if you have kazza installed you have to deal with them).

[magking1971]

THANKS for the heads up on the Zonealarm, works like a champ!

[The Deacon]

If crap still pops up, check your add/remove programs for programs that you didn't want on there. I had to go through AdAware, Spybot AND a manual sweep of my add/remove programs to nuke it all on one computer.

Look for names of programs that you don't know about. Worst thing you can do is uninstall a program that you can reinstall later.

[Kevmaster]

Best thing for spyware is Jaguar....

**** even panther works just fine...

i dont get no spyware on my machine

[stupiddogg]

spykiller.com, updates daily and never had a problem since installing and running